Baltic Cruise Delight

Britannia Cruise Review to Scandinavia

Connectorman

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 42

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

14 Nights Baltic (Southampton Roundtrip)

Sail date: June 04, 2017

Ship: Britannia

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: A617

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Our cruise around the Baltic Sea took us to 7 destinations each of which was a delight. Stops in Helsinki, St Petersburg, Talliin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Bruges gave us the chance to see many fantastic locations with incredible sights and experiences. I would say the two day Splendour of St Petersburg tour was a bit of a slog though, simply because there is so much to see they try to cram so much into each day. Oslo, Copenhagen and Bruges were our favourites especially the Bruges in a day tour which gave us a guided tour, free time to explore on our own and a canal bout tour. Definitely worth doing. Helsinki and Tallinn are both easily done by yourself without the need of a guided tour.

Britannia is a fine ship and the quality of food/service were very good, possibly a little better than our cruise on Aurora last year. My wife is coeliac and so needs gluten free food. Everyone in the restaurants on board was really knowledgable and helpful, particularly the head waiter in the main dining room who made sure my wife had gf food wherever she ate.

The cabin was pretty good, the balcony just about big enough for two and our cabin steward was excellent.

The entertainments crew were very good. Shows were big productions with good use made of the video wall in the main theatre and good quality celebrity acts. WE enjoy quizzes and those were in abundance and good fun.

My only slight gripe is with the lifts. There are three banks of lifts which should really be enough for 3400 guests but for some reason there were always large queues and no apparent logic in how the lifts would get to any floor often with a lift on a floor just above or below sailing past your floor and leaving you waiting for one which is many floors away and which stops on every floor.

Would say that every crew member we dealt with were excellent. A credit to the management team.

Overall a very good experience and one which I would thoroughly recommend.